Also - if you have to constantly flex your supposed intelligence, then really, there should be immediate alarm bells ringing. All the smartest people I've ever known wear their genius lightly. Cummings sports his like it's a pair of cheap, fluorescent leg warmers.

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole. The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Farage: epic grifter

It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

EXCLUSIVE- The Reform Conference Diary - Day 2 "09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Reform is not some unstoppable political force. It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change. Labour should spray these clips across the web. Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.

Exactly this. It was never about the mistake she made, as Tories have been doing this deliberately for decades. Call it classism, sexism, punching down, whatever you like. It stinks. #Rayner #Labour #BreakingNews

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Nick Robinson just asked John Curtice if the BBC giving a platform to Farage & Reform was responsible for their popularity; presumably hoping to hear the polling guru say a resounding "no". Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it" So the answer's clearly yes. #r4today

James, why is there a media blackout in regard to Farages humiliation in congress yesterday?

The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.

Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.

Some ppl think the broadcast coverage parties get is down to some sort of science. Actually decisions are made by a few people. At one time they’d say it was seat numbers now it seems it’s polls as the measure. Either way we’re not hearing ALL our parties. Sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

My friend worked in a hostel where a 15 year old used to spend their tiny allowance on tins of soup for his mother, his sole relation, because she was having chemo for terminal cancer and could not eat the food the hostel provided

Taking a break from my child sex trafficking scandal to condemn the lack of manners among starving kids these days

Among the many things wrong with this is the nudge nudge use of the word “jihad”

Literally any other military operation was more complex and secretive.

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

Contemporary Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari focuses on themes of identity and portrays mysterious narratives in her artworks #womensart

Not sure why #bbcwato thought we needed to hear any of the unhinged, genocidal thoughts of Sebastian Gorka, a "deputy assistant to Trump and senior director for counterterrorism", let alone for *seven minutes*. Quite bizarre. Notably #WATO didn't point he's a far-right media pundit.

Today, I have mostly been a Nigel Farage tribute act.

Listen to the UK doctor talking about his personal experience in Gaza at 13.09 minutes in and then Gorka’s spewed hatred straight afterwards www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Totally appalling interview on the BBC radio programme The World at One, just now. Sebastian Gorka, representing the Trump administration, failed to answer a single question from Sarah Montague and instead used the opportunity to hurl abuse at her. No idea why the BBC producer didn’t turn Gorka off